Sally's Stamp Club

What fun I had tonight! Well, I guess it's last night now, but still only a few hours ago. LOL I went to visit another Stamp Club tonight and as always got lots of fresh new ideas. We made three fabulous cards and, of course, I found another stamp set I just can't live without! Well, here are the cards and I'm heading to bed - tomorrow is another day and I have a friend coming over at 11:00 to stamp! Wow this has or should I say will be the "bestest" stamping week ever.

Christmas Card Challenge

Last night was the first night of my group Christmas Card Challenge (CCC) and we had a very fun productive evening and I think we all accomplished our set goal. I know I got my ten cards completed, even if I did work way past the time everyone else left. Guess I'm just slow or maybe I just talked too much. LOL Anyway, six of us have set the challenge to meet once a month and make a minimum of ten Christmas cards. Meeting February - November we will each have at least 100 cards ready to send my Thanksgiving! Yea - that really takes the pressure off. I think I will do like last year and make a variety of different cards, but one never knows - we will just have to wait and see. But for now here's card #1!

Stamp Club - February 10

Well, it's the 15th so I'm a little late getting this up, but here it is. We had a very good time with special nibbles brought by Megan. This was the first time we gathered after Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration began and everyone was ready to buy! We used some of the paper from the Sale-a-bration catalog and it was a hit. I love it - great spring colors. We also used the Big Shot in several ways = the top note, the new, great butterly die and the movers and shapers Curly label die. All three of these Sizzix dies are Stampin' Up! exclusives.

We also used the very versatile stamp set "Just Buzzin' By" - that one has so many possiblities for sentiments on the inside of the card! I cased my card from Lynda Lee on Splitcoaststampers. Funny how we boh had the same Fiskars texture plate on a shelf collecting dust.

Catching Up - January Stamp Club

Hard to believe it's already the end of January - seems like only yesterday that we blew the horns, kissed our loved ones and welcomed in 2009. The way time is flying it will soon be time to do it again.

I haven't posted since January 6 - what am I thinking? We have a new Stampin' Up Idea Book & Catalog filled with great new stamps, accessories and tools and I have lots of pictures to add of cards and projects.

January 13 was our monthly stamp club. We have two groups now, an afternoon group and an evening group. We made a valentine usng the new Love You Much bundle from Stampin' Up. What a great deal - a punch (three hearts) fabulous paper and a stamp set to die for, well not really, but you know what I mean - it's very cool.

We made a birthday card with the new level 3 hostess set, Goody Goody Gumdrops. We made a birthday card using the ice cream stamp and put a cherry on top - a very fun set. I cased the idea for the ice cream birthday card from Terri Thill-Splitcoast Stampers Gallery. We also made a small box filled with candy hearts, but alas I forget to take a picture of my sample. Oh well, next time.

As something new I am going to start listing the supplies used for each card pictured. Everything used is Stampin' Up unless specified.

Love card :

Stamps - Love You Much

Paper - Card Stock Chocolate Chip Textured, Card Stock Riding Hood Red Textured, Card Stock Piroutte Pink, Card Stock Whisper White, Designer Series Paper Candy Lane

Inks- Classic Stampin Pad Riding Hood Red , Stampin Write Marker Pretty in Pink, Versamark Pad

Accessories - Heart to Heart Punch, Big Shot, Scallop Envelope die (SU exclusive), Sizzix Letters (Lipstick Love), Scissors, Snail adhesive, Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder

Ice Cream/Birthday Card:

Stamps - Goody-Goody Gumdrops

Papers - Card Stock Old Olive, Card Stock Riding Hood Red, Card Stock Whisper White, Designer Series Paper Bella Rose

Inks - Basic Black, Water Color Pencils

Supplies - Chunky Glitter, Ticket Corner Punch, Vintage Brads, Snail Adhesive, 1/16th punch

Hope this helps - Will try to get more postings up tomorrow!

Hugs & Happy Stampin'

My Birthday Calendar

I don't know about you, but remembering birthdays is a tough job for me. That's not good for someone in the card (stamping) business, so when I saw this perpetual birthday calendar in the Stampin' Up catalog I jumped on it. I'm hoping that once I have all of the birthdays written in I will be able to make up my cards the month before and have them ready to start mailing the beginning of each month! I may be asking a lot from this one little calendar, but I had a blast decorating the cover and the pages and you have to admit my intentions are great! I also added anniversaries for friends and family. These would make a great gift for yourself or a friend - check them out in the catalog and add them to your next order. Just a thought but you might want to make sure you're on my calendar if you want to get a bd card in 2009!